Ryan Whitney

So this might vary from album to album, but typically over the course of one album, how many different combinations of guitars and amplifiers do you use?

yeah i mean the one that maybe our listeners might be most most familiar with uh the semi-charmed life the guitar in the first verse yeah that is it's such a unique sound of an instrument that i don't think i've ever heard on any other album before it's always it's always made me wonder what did you use to record that because it's got like an almost acoustic type feel to it but it's it's on an electric so yeah what was that uh

The mute switch, so it's not entirely muted.

You've always used guitars as, at times, almost a percussion instrument.

I think you also use the vocal line as a percussion sometimes.

Am I way off on that?

Yeah.

Way on.

Way on.

Yeah.

So there's like a sliding door moment if you find a singer, you're just a drummer for life.

Because you're almost not a reluctant front of stage.

Yeah.

That's something, the drums were your passion, and then it's like, well, we've got to find someone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where would you say the state of the recording industry is right now?

In terms of like how it's evolved from, you know, back when you first started, there was a lot of, you know, the major label had control over everything.

And they were seen as like the enemy that one day will be vanquished.

And then the Internet came along and then we thought maybe this is going to be good for the artists.